Hello,
My name is Rob and I manage the lettings for Darwen Vale high School. We have recently had an enquiry from a group wanting to use the observatory and telescope. The telescope we have is very expensive and can only be used by someone with knowledge on telescopes, after speaking with the Science teacher there he advised to contact yourselves as the group would be happy to pay someone to come and help them use the telescope.

If this is something you would be interested in it would be great to discuss this further with you as we have a grerat facility to offer but we don’t have the expertise to utilise it as much as I would like.

I look forward to hearing from you,

Regards,
Rob.

If any of our Members are interested, we can pass on Rob's contact details.

Bill,
Brian and I were invited over a couple of years ago. It's domed observatory with an 8 inch SCT on a tripod - it's not fastened down so for group visits it can be taken outside. Did I mention it was located on a roof terrace?
They had a CCD camera which was not really practical so we advised selling it and a solar scope bought instead.